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PREFACE. 

The object of this little pamphlet is to supply and preserve for 
future generations the facts herein contained in regard to this 
branch of the Bishop family. To the late George Bishop Smith, of 
Chicago, with whom a correspondence for a few years prior to his 
death was held, the writer is greatly indebted for information that 
otherwise would have been difficult, if not impossible, to obtain. 
George Bishop Smith's active life had been spent in newspaper work 
in various cities. He wrote a short time before his death : "It is a 
regretful remembrance that my name was at the masthead of the 
Norwich Courier in 1859, when its daily edition swamped my youth- 
ful enterprise." He was anxious to look up his ancestry, and 
searched in vain for the connecting link with Samuel or John 
Bishop, the first settlers of Norwich. The writer happily discovered 
and established this connecting link a few months after Mr. Smith's 
death, and herewith offers to all our dear kinsmen this little pam- 
phlet as a souvenir. 

H. F. Bishop. 

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I remember, I remember 

The house where I was born, 
The little window where the sun 

Came peeping in at morn. 

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I remember, I remember 

The elm trees dark and high ; 
I used to think their slender tops 

Were close against the sky. 
It was a childish ignorance. 

But now 'tis little joy- 
To know I'm farther off from heaven 

Than when I was a boy. 

— Thomas Hood. 

In 1634 settlers from Salem founded Ipswich, in the colony of 
Massachusetts Bay, and the date of Thomas Bishop, as a freeman 
of Ipswich, is 1636 in the records. " The family history, from Thomas 
Bishop to Earl Bishop, my grandfather, and other descendants," 
writes his grandson, George Bishop Smith, '* needs details that may 
be supplied by reference to other than public records," from which 
are derived the facts herein compiled. Thomas Bishop was a man 
of affairs, and at his death, Feb. 7, 167 1, his estate probated above 
^5,000, a large fortune for that day. In his active life he was much 
called upon to serve his town in local office, and at the General Court 
of the colony in 1666 ; and there is evidence that his name was known 
and respected in all the then neighboring colonies. He was the 
founder of the Ipswich family of Bishops, other families of the name 
deriving descent from his brothers, Nathaniel and Henry, who were 
among the first settlers and business men of Boston. Margaret, 
widow of Thomas, survived him, and their sons, named in the will, 
were Samuel, John, Thomas, Job, and Nathaniel. 

Of later dates than the death of Thomas, the records show that 
Samuel Bishop of Ipswich served (1676) in the King Philip war; and 
that in 1678 Samuel Bishop had "commonage" at Ipswich, whatever 
that may mean. Records also show that in 1685 Capt. Thomas 
Bishop of Ipswich suffered loss of a ship sailing to the Barbadoes. 

The needed information to supply a line of descent to Samuel 
and John Bishop, who were early settlers in that part of Norwich, 
Conn., subsequently known as Newent Parish, and later as the incor- 
porated town of Lisbon, in 1786, where so many Bishops were born, 



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has been very difficult to trace. The connecting thread of history 
is, however, direct, and records show, so far as available, that the 
said ^Samuel, Jr., and his youngest brother, 'John, who emigrated 
to Norwich, were sons of gSamuel of Ipswich, and grandsons of 
said 'Thomas Bishop. Of this ^Samuel Bishop and his wife Hester 
Coggswell's children, we have little to find in Connecticut records. : 
Their oldest child, Margaret, married a Griggs. She was sister of'^ 
Samuel and John, whom we have traced down to recent date, even 
to those now living, though scattered all through the country. 

In 1694 that portion of Norwich lands described as "lying be- 
tween the crotch of the rivers Shetucket and Quinebaug," was by 
vote of the town sold to purchasers from Ipswich, Massachusetts, 
representing the Perkins and Bishop families, already established 
and wealthy at Ipswich, and each having also family connections of 
established wealth and character at Boston. The Bishops — Samuel 
and John — who afterward came to the new purchase with other first 
settlers, are described in Norwich history as " descendants of Thomas 
Bishop of Ipswich." The new settlement received the name of New- 
ent, in family remembrance of traditions that refer to Newent par- 
ish, in Gloucestershire, England ; it was also the third parish of Nor- 
wich. That it was not a religious colony would be indicated, by the 
record showing a vote of the town of Norwich threatening extreme 
measures if a church was not forthwith organized at Newent ; and it 
was in compliance with such a vote that a parish organization was 
made effective in 1723, the name of John Bishop appearing in the 
seven selected (according to custom) to be of record as church 
founders. 

Records show the marriage, in 1706, of Samuel Bishop and Sarah 
Forbes; the marriage, also, of John Bishop, in 1718, to Mary (born 
1697), daughter of Thomas Bingham and granddaughter of Thomas 
Bingham, an original settler in Norwich in 1659. After the death of 
his wife, this John Bishop married, in 1727, Temperance (born 1704), 
daughter of Joseph Lathrop, of Norwich. John Bishop was born at 
Ipswich, in 1685, son of Samuel and Hester (Coggswell) Bishop, and 
died at Norwich in 1755. 

The land title to the Newent purchase was long disputed by the 
descendants of Uncas, to whom " the crotch in the rivers " had been 
an ancestral seat of equal beauty and honor. In 1725 the Mohegan 
title was quit-claimed to " Lieut. Samuel Bishop and others," and in 
1745 was altogether surrendered by deed to "Capt. Samuel Bishop 
and others," This Samuel Bishop was confirmed to his title of Cap- 
tain in 1737 by the General Assembly of Connecticut Colony, which 
body at a later date. May, 1754, confirmed Samuel Bishop, Jr., son 

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of Samuel, to be Lieutenant of the Company or train-band in the 
parish of Newent, in the town of Norwich." ^Samuel Bishop's son, 
g Daniel Bishop, of this Newent-Norwich family, was lieutenant in 
the regiment (Israel Putnam, lieutenant-colonel), raised in 1759 for 
the Old French War. He was, in 1768, confirmed as captain of the 
Newent train-band. 

jNathaniel Bishop, brother of gDaniel, also of the Newent-Nor- 
wich family, was lieutenant in Durkee's Connecticut regiment, raised 
in 1776 for the War of the Revolution — a regiment largely drawn from 
Norwich and its near neighborhood. His name appears also in the 
rolls of the Connecticut Society of the Cincinnati. 

The Bishops and the Perkinses were allied families at Newent, 
and their wealth enabled them to extend their ownership over an 
additional 1,000 acres, to which was given the local designation of 
Hanover (or fourth) parish in Norwich. Their wealth and shipping 
interests also enabled them to import and keep slaves ; and Matthew 
Perkins (born 17 13) died on his Hanover estate, in 1773, of lockjaw 
caused by the bite of a slave. This Matthew Perkins married, in 
1739, Hannah, daughter of Samuel Bishop, whose wife was Sarah 
Forbes, as before recited. The widowed Hannah Bishop Perkins 
died Oct. 28, 1809, aged 87 years, and of her thirteen children a 
daughter, Hannah, attained the age of 96, a son, Joshua, g^, another 
son 90; and other ages of record are 83, 76, 68, down to 57 years, only 
one of the thirteen failing to reach years of maturity. This record 
of Hannah Bishop and Matthew Perkins presents a striking parallel 
to that of Sibel Worthington, who attained loi years, and whose 
nine children attained ages of 88, 86, 85, 83 and 82 years, down to 
60 years. The two women were born respectively, in 1722 and 1727, 
and their lives reflect, at this distance, at once a view and a record 
rarely found in the annals of any family. Of the Worthington 
descendants one of the daughters married Earl Bishop. Their chil- 
dren were named Earl and Lucretia Bishop. 

A grandson of Hannah Bishop and Matthew Perkins (as above) 
was named Bishop Perkins, and was representative in Congress 
(1853-55) for the Herkimer district of New York. 

Where Bishop family records have been unavailable, much infor- 
mation has been derived from the published records of the Perkins 
and other allied families. The Perkinses of Newent-Norwich are 
descended from the brothers Joseph and Jabez, who were associated 
with the two Bishop brothers in the original settlement of Newent. 
It thus appears that Daniel Bishop (born 1732), son of Samuel 
and Abigail (Corning) Bishop, married Mary (born July 11, 1735), 
daughter of Dr. Joseph and Mary (Bushnell) Perkins. This Daniel 

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Bishop died in 1783, leaving Mary a widow. Dr. Joseph Perkins 
was a son of the Joseph first of record at Newent, and Sam- 
uel Bishop was apparently the lieutenant of record in 1754. Daniel 
and his wife Mary were therefore grandchildren of original settlers 
of Norwich. 

At the same or about the same date as the marriage of Daniel 
and Mary, the record shows the marriage of Nathaniel Bishop and 
Lydia, daughter of John and Lydia (Tracy) Perkins. The brides 
were cousins, and the husbands probably brothers. 




U. S. MAIL LINE BETWEEN NEW YORK AND BOSTON, 



Part L 

THOMAS BISHOP (J). 

jThomas BfsHOP, of Ipswich, Mass., died Feb. 7, 1674, and left 
a widow, Margaret, and sons, gSamuel, ojohn, jT^homas, Jr., jJob, 
and a 3 Nathaniel, which we find on record. 

^Samuel, son of ^ Thomas, graduated at Harvard College in 1665, 
died at Ipswich, 1687, He married Hester Cogswell ; their children 
were nine : 

3 Margaret, born May 17, 1676, married Ichabod Griggs. 

3Samuel, born Feb. 6, 1678/9; 3 John, born Sept. 20, 1685; among 
the earliest settlers in Norwich, now Lisbon. 

There were other children, of which no dates are at hand. The 
widow, Hester or Esther, married, second time, Thomas Burnham in 
1689. 

SAMUEL BISHOP (3). 

3SAMUEL , of Ipswich and Norwich, born 1678/9 ; died November 
18, 1760. Married Sarah Forbes, January 2, 1705, born 1683 ; died 
1759. They had eleven children — an infant, Sarah, died. 

^Thomas, born November 14, 1706 ; died June, 1724. 

■* Samuel, born February 2, 1708 ; died November 17, 1 760. ' Mar- 
ried Abigail Corning and Abigail Sprague. 

*Sarah, born March 7, 17 10 ; died 1710, _ 

't Esther, born January I, 1712 ; married a Tyler first and a Rudd. 

*Caleb, born March 16, 17 15 ; married first Keziah Hebbard in 
1739. She died 1776. 

^Joshua, born June, 1716 ; married Deborah Reynolds, 1741. 

* Sarah, born March, 1718 ; married a Brown and a Bushnell. 

* Elizabeth, born January 5, 1720; married a Lathrop and a 
Winter. 

* Hannah, born August 2, 1722 ; married Matthew Perkins, 1739. 
^Ebenezer, born November 26, 1725 ; married Tabitha Strong, of 

Coventry, 1762, and Jerusha Lord, of Preston, 1770. 

^Susannah, born December 26, 1727 ; married a Tracy. 

SAMUEL BISHOP, Jr. (4) 

^Samuel, Jr., born 1708/9; died iT^jiv Married first Abigail Corn- 
ing, October 6, 1731, of Beverly. She died, 1747, aged 32 years : 
married second Mrs. Abigail Sprague, 1750, of Lebanon. It is said 



there were children by second wife, but no record is found of them. 
Children by first wife : 

s Daniel, born 1732 ; married Mary Perkins, May 2, 1754. He 
died, 1783. She then married Jonathan Starr, 1790. 

^Joanna, born 1733/4; died 1736. 

^Thomas, born 1735 > ciied 1740. 

^Abigail, born 1737 ; married Joshua Perkins— two children, Ta- 
bitha and Abigail. 

^Nathaniel, born 1739; died 1797. Married, 1763, Lydia Per- 
kins ; their children were ^Daniel, ^Ruth, ^Joanna, and "Lydia ; bap- 
tized, 1775. 

^Zacharias, born 1741 ; died 1749. 

* Lydia, born 1743; died 1748. 

^Ezra, born 1745 ; married Anna Lathrop, 1770. Had a son, 
Henry, born 1777, and a daughter, Anne, born 1780. 

EBENEZER BISHOP (4). 

*Ebenezer, born Nov. 26, 1725 ; married first Tabathy Strong, 
June 17, 1762 ; she died 1768 ; married second Jerusha Lord, 1770, 
He died 1795. Children : 

^Susannah, born 1763 ; married Cyrus Bishop ; she was cousin 
both to his father and mother. 

8 Samuel, born 1765 ; married Lucy Lord, 1792 ; she died Nov, 
23, 1808. 

^Ebenezer, Jr., born June 3, 1767. History not found. 

Second wife's children : 

^Hezekiah, born August 11, 1772. 

^Sarah Lord, born Sept. 15, 1776 ; died July 12, 1817. 

CALEB BISHOP (4). 

*Caleb, born 1715 ; married first Keziah Hebbard, 1739; their 
chiidren : 

s Reuben, born Nov. 2, 1740; married his cousin, Hannah, Feb. 
10, 1761. 

s Elijah, born June 16, 1742. Think he died, 1776. 

5 Mary, born July 18, 1744; married Oct. 27, 1763, Daniel Corn- 
stock. 

^Lucy, born Dec. 21, 1747. 

JOSHUA BISHOP (4). 
^Joshua, born 17 16; married Deborah Reynolds, 1741. They 
had a daughter : 

8 Hannah, born March 14, 1744/5 "> married her cousin, Reuben, 
Feb. 10, 1761. 

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REUBEN BISHOP (5). 

5 Reuben Bishop was a soldier in our Colonial and Revolutionary 
war. A Yale College class book for the year 1819, when one of his 
grandsons graduated (Dr. Elijah Bishop, son of Caleb and grandson 
of this Captain Reuben Bishop), speaks of the grandfather, ''as 
a captain of a militia company in the Revolutionary war, who 
accompanied Arnold's expedition up the Kennebec river towards 
Quebec, and was killed September 24th, 1775." The story of his 
death as related by his widow to her great-grandchildren and others 
the present writer remembers very well. She said her husband, the 
captain, was visited by one of his soldiers who was intoxicated. 
When the captain ordered him to go to his quarter?, and shut the 
door upon him, the soldier turned and fired his musket through 
the door, thus fatally shooting his commander. My great-grand- 
mother lived to the good old age of 90 years ; and her lips and 
voice conveyed to my ears many interesting facts which, with 
those coming under the personal observation of the writer, cover 
one hundred and fifty years of past history — which must .be quite 
unusual. 

The writer has been unable to get much help from existing 
records, there being no complete records to be found in the then 
chaotic state of affairs in our history, when Captain ^ Reuben Bishop 
gave or lost his life to serve his country. The date of his death (1775) 
was after Concord, Lexington, and Bunker Hill battles, but before 
the Declaration of Independence, or Washington's having command 
of the army. I find in the Colonial Assembly records of Connecticut 
he (Reuben Bishop) was commissioned as an ensign, in 177 1, in the 
Norwich train-band, but cannot find any confirmation of his being 
appointed captain. But I understand that in Arnold's army they 
had power to grant commissions upon the field of service, to those 
deserving promotion. On Sept. 24th, 1775, when he died (only about 
eight days after the expedition left Boston or Cambridge for Quebec), 
they had just time to be near the mouth of the Kennebec River. 
The Probate Court records of Norwich show the settlement of his 
estate, which was insolvent. It gave in an appraisal of his military 
equipments, and shows that his administrators collected and returned 
credit in pounds, shillings and pence for money received for his 
services in the army. His widow, Hannah, was left with five sons. 
She married (second time) Capt. Benjamin Burnham, and had a son 
and a daughter by this second marriage. She used to relate it as a 
hard task to care for her five fatherless children when Joshua, the 
oldest son, was drafted in the last two years of the Revolutionary war, 

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and often said, " It took each year the best yoke of oxen she could 
raise to buy a substitute for him, as she could not spare him." 

This family owned slaves, and after slavery was abolished in the 
State of Connecticut they were obliged by law to support and main- 
tain those who were too old to support themselves. 

As a boy I was fond of paying a visit to old thick-lipped, black 
Nanny, in a room set apart for her sole use in my grandfather's 
house, where she could bake her " johnny cake " by the open fireplace. 

I had great interest then in an old blue broadcloth stuffed 
pillion I could see hanging up, attached to a saddle, on which my 
great-grandmother informed me she used to ride seven miles to 
church, behind one of the male members of the family, in mortal 
fear of some unfriendly Indians springing out of ambush upon them 
before thev could realize their danger. It must be remembered that 
in those early times there were roving tribes of Indians who were 
not always friendly. 

Bundy Hill's settlers in Norwich could plainly look across the 
Shetucket River upon Sachem Plain, where the Narragansett tribe 
under Miantonomoh came to attack " Uncas/' Chief of the Mohe- 
gans, and his wainors. It was not so very long ago, then, that these 
scenes had become historic to that locality, and the monuments 
erected to the memory of these chiefs are in that immediate vicinity. 
Not much more than a generation had passed since Uncas with his 



and his son Owaneco's signature 



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signature ^^ 

placed upon all deeds of conveyance by them ; and even then the 
living grandson of Uncas, " Atawanehood's " mark '^\~;^ would 
give title to land disposed of. 




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REUBEN BISHOP (5). 

'Reuben, son of ^Caleb, and "Hannah, daughter of ^ Joshua, were 
married by Peter Powers, Feb. lo, 1761, and their children (5) have a 
double line back upon their ancestors. Their children : 

^Joshua, born Jan. 14, 1762 ; died 1845. Married Welthy Adams. 

^Caleb, born March 20, i764;"died 1842. Married Ziporah Tracy. 

^Cyrus, born Jan. 22, 1766 ; died 1829. Married ^Susannah Bishop. 

6 Earl, born Dec. 29, 1768 ; died 1808. Married Lucretia H. Miller. 

'Daniel W., born Nov. 24, 1770; died 1813. Married Lucy Read. 

^Reuben's widow, Hannah, married second Benjamin Burnham. 
Two children were born to them : 'Bishop Burnham, born 1783 ; mar- 
ried a Clark, and 'Hannah Burnham, born 1786 ; married Dr. Elijah 
Baldwin, of Canterbury, Connecticut. 

CAPT. SAMUEL BISHOP \5u 

gCapt. Samuel, ^Ebenezer's son, born 1765; married Lucy 
Lord, 1792; she was born 1765. Capt. Bishop was in the Revolu- 
tionary army. He emigrated to Attica, N. Y., about 1810. Their 
children (five) were: 

jEzra, born ; married Margaret , of Scotch descent, 

and had two sons, Fitz James and Walter Scott. 

jRebecca, born about 1793; died childless. 

gjames Lord, born ; resided in Sturges, Mich. 

gLucy Strong, born ; married Wm. Brewster, of Le Roy, 

N. Y. Descendants, Wm. S. Brewster, Chicago ; Helen Brewster, 
married Henry M. Baker, of Hudson, Wis. 

gWm. S. Bishop, born 1803; married Mary Sayles (first) and Cor- 
nelia Rochester (second). 

WILLIAM S. BISHOP 16). 

gWm. S., moved from Lisbon to Rochester about 1820. He was 
a prominent man, highly respected by all who knew him. He was 
made a justice of the peace before he reached his majority, and held 
many official positions through his whole life. He died 1863, leaving 
three children by the first wife, namely: 

REV. GEORGE SAYLES BISHOP, D.D. (7). 

Rev. ^George Sayles, D.D., a graduate of Amherst College, 
1857 ; settled as pastor in Newburgh, N. Y., for several years, 
and was for twenty years pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church 
at Orange, N. J.; has served as a Moderator of the Synod of 

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that organized body. Rev. George S. Bishop, D.D., was chosen 
Vedder Lecturer before the College and Seminary of New Bruns- 
wick in 1884. He has represented in Holland the American branch 
of his church, and has three times been a delegate to the Pan- 
Presbyterian Council. His sermons have often been "recognized" 
and published in the last forty years (as the Christian Intelligencer 
has said), " for their strong defence of the old school orthodoxy." 
He was born 1836; married Hannah Williston. They have two sons; 
a daughter, ^Margaret, has died. Children: 

Rev. gWm. S. Bishop, curate of St. John's Chapel, N. Y. He is a 
graduate of Rutgers College and General Theological Seminary. 

gEdward H. Bishop, a graduate of Princeton, N. J., is a teacher 
in New York City. 

MARY CATHERINE BISHOP (7). 

,Mary Catherine Bishop married Merrill E. Gates, LL.D., 
formerly President of Amherst College. Their residence is Wash- 
ington, D.C. Their children, 8 Merrill E, Gates, Jr., a graduate of Am- 
herst College and of Columbia Law School, Class 1902; gVVm. S. 
Gates is in graduate class of Amherst Union Theological Seminary 
for 1902. 

gMargaret, unmarried (1901). 

JAMES L, BISHOP (7). 

, James L., born 1843, a lawyer in New York City, married 
Martha Maitland. Their children: 

gMaitland L. Bishop, born 1879, is in Amherst College, class 
1901. 

gMary Charlotte Bishop, born 1877. 

g Merrill Bishop, born 1883. Is at Amherst College, in class 1904. 

It is well to state that in this paper many difificulties prevent fol- 
lowing out each one of the earlier descendants in the line of all 
their children, also, to state that some Bishops by name appear 
among the records which may have come from the Ipswich Bishops 
later than the first settlers, but relatives of said Samuel and John, 
perhaps some not related at all. It is herein proposed to follow out 
some of the branches of the Bishops, Samuel and John, or all that 
can be found of them down to a recent period among those now liv- 
ing, by historic data, which have been carefully searched for, and are 
too valuable to be lost if their children are ever to have a complete 
genealogical line. Some miscellaneous records, not easily connected, 
have been saved for future use should some descendant discover 
their proper connection. 

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Rev. George S. Bishop 



The lineal descendants of the cousins ^Reuben and ^Hannah, 
who married in 1761, can be followed to the present day. In review- 
ing their ancestors of the fourth generation much is, however, 
obscure, or yet not looked up, in regard to their aunts and their 
children, although most of them were in prominent families in 
their day, as was their aunt Hannah Bishop, who married Matthew 
Perkins. She had as sisters Esther, Sarah, Elizabeth and a Susan- 
nah, who all had families not reported here. 

SONS OF REUBEN AND HANNAH BISHOP. 

The five sons of ^Reuben and ^Hannah : 

g Joshua, the oldest, was born Jan. 14, 1762 ; died May 4, 1845. 
He married Welthy Adams, born 1760 ; died Sept. 5, 1839. He 
married second Mehitable Williams. His children were two by the 
first wife : , Reuben and ^jBarzillai. 

jCaleb, born March 20, 1764 ; married ,Ziporah Tracy, 1790. She 
was born July 21, 1769; died July 22, 1819. Married second Betsey 
Tyler. 

gCyrus, born Jan. 22, 1766 ; married gSusannah Bishop, the cousin 
of both his father and mother, Jan. 17, 1792. She was the daughter 
of ^Ebenezer Bishop. 

jEarl, born Dec. 29, 1768; married Lucretia H. Miller, of Mid- 
dletown, Connecticut. 

gDaniel W., born Nov. 24, 1770 ; married Lucy Read, Jan. 26, 
1796. 

The children and grandchildren of the above five sons will follow 
consecutively, commencing with the oldest son of ^Joshua, , Reuben. 

SAMUEL BISHOP (3). 
His descendants, of the seventh generation : 

REUBEN BISHOP (7). 

^Reuben, son of Joshua, born 1783. Received a pension for his 
services in the War of 18 12. He v/as elected captain of the Militia 
Company in the town of Lisbon, Connecticut. Subsequently he was 
made a deacon of the Newent Church, serving several years till the 
time of his death. Married first Abigail Adams, born Oct. 31, 1781. 
She died Oct. 3, 1827 ; he died Dec. 10, 1855. Abigail Adams was a 
daughter of Captain John Adams, of Canterbury, who served 
through the War of the Revolution, Their children, to wit : 

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GEORGE A. BISHOP (8). 

gGEORGE A., born 1809 ; married Almira Beals in 1844/5. ^ 
died Dec. 17, 1855 ; she died Sept. 13, 1875. Their children were : 

gGeorge T,, born July 14, 1846 ; married, Aug. 27, 1867, Mary 
Blackmer, born Oct. 22, 1844. They had a son, born Dec. 9, 1876 ; 
died Oct. 15, 1894. 

gAnna C, born Nov. 20, 1849 ; married a Steavens. Had two 
children, j q^^^ ^"^ ^ ^°"' 1 o^harles. 

gElla S., born July 22, 1852 ; married Noyes E. Rice. They have 
a daughter, Etta, married Jan. 16, 1901, to Charles Byron Hastings 
Residence, Worcester, Mass. 

gEmma C, born Nov. 9, 1853 ; married John Champlin. Have 
two sons. Nelson and Willie. Residence, Worcester, Mass. 

gWillie W., born April 28, 1856 ; died May 29, 1859. 

WELTHA BISHOP (8), 
gWELTHA, born Oct. 11, 181 1 ; died June 27, 1827. 

JOSHUA BISHOP (8). 

gJosHUA, born April 19, 1814 ; died Jan. 16, 1840. He was a prac- 
ticing dentist in New York City, and at St. Thomas, one of the West 
India islands. 

CHARLES BISHOP (8). 

gCHARLES, born Feb. 13, 1817; married Mary M. Fleet, April, 1844. 
She was born March €5, 1820. He was a dentist at Williamsburgh, 
now Brooklyn. He died May 27, 1899; she died Jan. 18, 1894. 
Their children were : 

gTwo children died in infancy. 

THEODORE A. BISHOP (9). 

gTHEODORE A., born Oct. 11, 1849, married Lucy G. White, born 
May 8, 1854, on Dec. 7, 1870. Their children were : 
jgCharles Hayes, born Sept. 9, 187 1. 
jgMary Elizabeth, born Aug. 20, 1874. 
J Q Reuben Adams, born Dec. 13, 1879. 

,,, Ethel Gertrude, born Dec. 21, 1882 : she died Aug. 19, 1895. 
jgGrover Cleveland, born Sept. 30, 1885. 
J Q Allen Thurman, born Jan. 26, 1889. 
jpWilliam Cogswell, born Nov. 19, 1891. 
jgTheodore A., born Aug. 4, 1893 ; died 1893. 
^pTheodore A. H., born Dec. 8, 1894. 

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AUGUSTUS FLEET BISHOP (9). 

qAugustus Fleet Bishop, born June 14, 1854; married Sadie 
Emma Gosline, born Aug. 24, 1874. Their ciiildren are : 
J P Mary Matilda, born Jan. 30, 1893. 
,Q \ugustus Fleet, born July 8, 1900. Residence, Babylon, L. I. 

HARRY R BISHOP (9j. 

gHARRY Placide, bom June 2, 1857 ; married Isabella Crawford, 
June 30, 1884; she was born March 14, 1864. Their children : 
jgNorma Belle, born May 8, 1887 ; died July i, 1889. 
jgClaude Adams, born Oct. 26, 1889. 
Their residence, Babylon, L. I. 

HENRY FITCH BISHOP (8). 

gHENRY Fitch Bishop, born April 3, 1820, married Charlotte 
W. Shaw, daughter of the late Prof. Oliver Shaw, of Providence, 
R. I., June 15, 1852. She was born Aug. 14, 1827; died Jan. 23, 
1896. Their children : 

gCharlotte Shaw, born April 17, 1853, married Rev. J. V. Chalmers, 
May 23, 1876; she died April 3, 1878, leaving a son, j^, Henry Bishop, 
born March 19, 1878. He is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology, Boston. 

gida, born Dec, 25, 1856, married Rev. J. V. Chalmers June 30, 
1884. Children: 10^'^" K.eid, born May 16, 1886; j^Theresa, 
born April 14, 1888 ; ^ ^Charlotte, born March" 26, 1892. Reside in 
New York. 

gSarah Shaw, born Sept. 15, 1861, married April 25, 1889, James 
S. Whitman. Reside in New York. Their children: j^Marian, 
born July 11, 1890. 

gEdnah Shaw, born May 6, 1865, married Eugene M. Johnson, 
of Boston. Children: ,gNorah, born Nov. 4, 1898; j^Eugene 
Malcolm, born Nov. 27, 1899 ; j^Harriet Louisa, born Feb. 14, 1901. 

gHarry, born June 23, 1870 ; died Feb. 13, 1872. 

HENRY FITCH BISHOP (8). 

The writer was one of four in his family who followed the 
profession of dentistry. Early among the first graduates of the 
oldest dental college in existence, gHenry Fitch Bishop's name 
appears as receiving the degree of D.D.S. He practiced 
for nearly forty successive years in Worcester, Mass.; afterward 

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followed his profession for a few years in Hanover, Germany, 
before retiring. In publishing this genealogical line pertaining to 
his family's history he herein asserts that, in reviewing his past life, 
which has been long "as measured by years," he finds no great 
achievements to speak of, but relates with great pleasure an incident 
which was connected with his boyhood days, before he was ten years 
old, when he, in company with his father, left the dear old home- 
stead on the top of the hill for a three-mile ride to a neighboring 
farm on which there was a pine timber lot. After making a trade 
for two dozen small pine trees, he and his father dug them up and 
returned home with them. The trees were set out by the roadside — 
on a road leading past the back part of the old farm, not much fre- 
quented. At that time there were no pine trees seen for miles around, 
and they were conspicuous, but often broken down to gratify the 
passing teamsters, who had a passion to trim and adorn their horses 
with the evergreen boughs. Fortunately, nine of those twenty-four 
trees, held up by the writer for his father to plant dirt about the 
roots, survived and out-grew the strength of the teamsters who 
would thoughtlessly destroy them. 

The result became the pride of his life, and is worthy the imita- 
tion of any boy who would do a good and lasting deed — if not for 
himself, for those who come after him — by setting trees by the road- 
side in this era of improved roads, thus making the farms more 
valuable and the country more beautiful. The nine living trees 
referred to became great sawmill logs, and made fine boards when 
sawed, from eighteen inches to twenty-four wide, as now seen cover- 
ing the barns of the place on which they were nailed several years 
ago. Nor is this all; by their pine needles they seeded down several 
acres of pasture ground, where a pine forest now exists, of trees 
large enough to require the help of a saw-mill to handle their lumber. 



LYDIA S. BISHOP (8). 

gLvDiA S., born Sept. 6, 1822, married Peter Lanman, of Nor- 
wich ; had no children ; she taught an Indian school for the later 
descendants of Uncas' tribe at Mohegan, Conn. The American 
Missionary Board afterwards gave her an appointment to go among 
the Choctaw Indians as an assistant missionary at Fort Towson, 
Ark., where she spent some time in missionary work. 

8 John A., born 1824; died unmarried in California in 185 1. 
jAbigail, born 1827 ; died an infant, 1827. 

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Children of Capt. Reuben Bishop and his second wife, Lucy S. 
Adams : 

JABEZ ADAMS BISHOP (8). 

gjABEZ Adams Bishop, born June 30, 1833 ; married Emma 
Hanford, 1864. Their children : 

gHattie, H., born Nov. 20, 1866 ; married Percy H. Brundage, 
1888. 

gMarshall, born Dec. 9,1869; married Florence Walsh, 1900. 
They all reside in New York City. 

gDr. J. Adams Bishop, a practicing dentist (1901) in New York 
City. His long experience and association with the late Dr. 
Gunning, the inventor of dental splints for broken jaws, qualified 
him to be of great service to the medical and surgical managers of 
the public hospitals, and he has been frequently called by the late 
surgeon Dr. Gurdon Buck and others to take charge of their cases 
of broken jaws whenever dental splints have been found necessary. 
In that capacity he was called to the late Secretary Seward at Wash- 
ington at the time of the Lincoln tragedy; and his services were duly 
appreciated by the late Surgeon-General Barnes, who mentions his 
name in a marginal note in his published official works as rendering 
valuable services in that line. He was a soldier in the New York 
37th Regiment in 1862 in the War of the Rebellion, and in 1863 was 
near enough to Gettysburg to hear the cannonading of that great 
battle while on duty with the reserves as an assistant surgeon of his 
regiment. 

JAMES BISHOP (8). 

g James, born July 11, 1835; married Olive A. Parker, born July 
16, 1848; on Sept. 14, 1868. He died Nov. 27, 1897. Children: 

gEdward Augustus, born July 27, 1870; married Hattie Cilley, 
Oct. 16, 1895. She was born Jan. 26, 1868. 

gSamuel Howard, born Nov. 17, 1876. 

g Alice Adams, born July 5, 1880. Residence Bozrah, Conn. 

gjames Bishop has represented the town of Bozrah in the Con- 
necticut Legislature, and was a deacon in the Congregational 
Church for several years prior to his death. 

gAsBY, born May 30, 1837; died June, 1868, unmarried. 
gHATTiE, born Nov. 12, 1841; died about 1859, unmarried. 



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BARZILLAI BISHOP (7). 

,Barzillai, son of gjoshua, born 1789, married Lucy Hunting- 
ton about 1814 or 1815, born 1795; ^^^ died Jan. r, 1855. He died 
April, 1831. ,Barzillai Bishop was a prominent man of affairs 
and highly respected in the the town of Lisbon, and was chosen to 
represent the town in the State Legislature, as well as to fill other 
offices of trust. Their children: 



BARZILLAI BISHOP (8). 

gBarzillai, born 1816, married Elizabeth Allen. They had one 
child, but it died in infancy. He died early after their marriage, 
and Mrs. Bishop married (second) a Mr. Downs. 

NATHAN PERKINS BISHOP (8). 

gNATHAN Perkins Bishop, born Feb. 5, 1818; married Nancy 
Lee; she died 1892. He married, second, Mary Ensworth. He 
died Aug. 10, 1898, leaving the following children by first wife: 

gNathan Lee Bishop, born 1841; married Julia Armstrong. 
gLucy Huntington, born 1842; married Nathan Witter. 
gNancy Bingham, born 1844; married Charles W. Carey. He 
died 1898. 

gBarzillai Perkins Bishop, born 1852; married Nellie Kilbourne. 

jNathan Perkins Bishop, of this good old Revolutionary stock 
was always interested in public matters concerning Lisbon, and 
held ofiices of trust, being first selectman of the town, and repre- 
sented her in the Legislature of i860, and was prominent in 
church work in the Hanover Parish ; and was well fitted for posi- 
tions of trust among his neighbors, and had much to engage his at- 
tention in the settlement of estates. " He was a model citizen (as 
has been written of him), and a welcome visitor in many households. 
He took great delight in home ties, and his life was an example of 
the Christian living which he professed." 

jNathan Lee Bishop, son of gNathan Perkins, has been super- 
intendent of the public schools for over twenty years in the city of 
Norwich, Conn. His mother was a daughter of Wm. Lee, who was a 
son of the Rev. Andrew Lee, D.D., who preached in the Hanover 
Parish more than fifty years. Said ^Nathan served his country more 
than three years in the War of the Rebellion, enlisting as a private 
in the 21st Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers, and after an exam- 

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Nathan L. Bishov 



ination by the Military Board at Washington, he was appointed First 
Lieutenant in the First Regiment of United States colored troops, 
and served as Adjutant of the Regiment for more than a year. He 
refused a promotion to a captaincy offered him. He was mustered 
out at Washington, D. C, November, 1865. No pension received or 
asked for. 

NATHAN LEE BISHOP (9) AND JULIA ARMSTRONG'S 

CHILDREN. 

joFannie Arnold, born 1873. 
^^Katharine Trowbridge, born 1877. 
Residence, Norwich, Conn. 

LUCY H. BISHOP (9) AND NATHAN WITTER'S 

CHILDREN. 

jgHubert, born 1867; died in infancy. 
,oHelen Bishop, born 1868, 
jgEdward William, born 1874. 
Residence, Hanover, Conn. 

NANCY B. BISHOP (9) AND CHARLES W. CAREY'S 

CHILDREN. 

joFrederick William, born 1872; married Helen Darling. 

joHubert Bishop Carey, born 1873. 

, g Henrietta Woodworth, born 1876. Residence, Norwich, Conn. 

BARZILLAI PERKINS BISHOP (9). 

jBarzillai Perkins Bishop and Nellie Kilbourne's children : 
jgHarriet Kilbourne, born 1880. 
,y Roberts Huntington, born 1884. 
,(, Marion Lee, born 1886. 

ROGER A. BISHOP (8). 

8 Roger A., born 1822 ; married Lucy P. Lee. They had children : 
9 Eliza Lee, ^Clarissa Huntington, and ^ Elizabeth. The whole fam- 
ily has died without further issue. 

LUCY BISHOP (8). 

gLucy Bishop, born 1824; married Joseph Edmunds. Their chil- 
dren were : 

gjoseph Huntington, born 1843; married Mary Albro. 

gMary Elizabeth, born 1845 ; married Wyman J. May. Residence, 
Hartford, Conn. 

gLucy, died in infancy. 

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ELIZABETH AND MARY BISHOP (8), 

gElizabeth and gMary, twins, born 1828, gElizabeth died unmar- 
ried ; g^^^y married Rev. Charles L. Ayers. Children : 

A son, born 1852, died the next day. 

^Frances Amelia, born 1853. 

gjohn Rogers, born 1856 ; married. 

(.Joseph Huntington, born 1858 ; died 1866. 

jCharles Bishop, born i860 ; died 1861. 

3 Rev. Edward Perkins, born 1862 ; married Helen Bishop, born 
1868. 

^Frederick William, b. 1864 ; died 1865. 

gMary Elizabeth, born 1866. 

gGeorge Soule, born 1868; married. 

jLucy Eugenia, born 1870. 

^Abigail, born 1830; died in 1855 ; unmarried. 

The Bishops of this Ipswich-Norwich stock were not only noted 
for their patriotism, but they were public spirited in all enterprises 
requiring energy and patience. They were industrious and frugal, 
securing thrift and a competency for all needed comforts. They were 
also temperate in their habits and obedient to laws regulating good 
morals in the community in which they lived. No records of crime, 
nor drunkenness, seem to be found attached to them in their history. 
One of their descendants — a* most estimable lady. Miss Rebecca 
Bishop, of Rochester, N. Y. — writing to Norwich to find out what 
could possibly be learned of her common ancestry of a hundred and 
fifty years ago, speaks of them, with much pride, thus: "For they 
were great — not, like Caesar, stained with blood;" but they were 
good men, and took an honorable stand among the early settlers of 
our country. They were enumerated among the best types of those 
good, sterling old colonial families which accomplished so much for 
our national independence, and left an indelible and lasting impres- 
sion throughout the development of our whole country's history. 
This Miss Bishop also wrote: " I love to talk about the old home- 
stead. Perhaps you do not remember that I was born in the same 
house that our common ancestor, Samuel Bishop, built on Bundy 
Hill; also that my father and my grandfather were born in that same 
house." (It has been destroyed by fire twice and rebuilt since.) 

One peculiarity of those earlier settlers which has been very 
noticeable was in selecting a site for erecting their homes — they 
placed their houses upon high ground, overlooking large tracts of 
distant land, as if to draw inspiration of a higher cultivation and to 

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feel and strengthen their ambition into high and still higher aspira- 
tions in life. In the early part of the eighteenth century there were in 
Lisbon nearly a dozen of these sightly homes of the Bishops and their 
relatives. We give a view of one of them, much like the others: 

Alas! the changes which time has wrought! Not a Bishop 
remains as a resident of the town of Lisbon at the present time. 
This once thrifty place, with its true aristocratic people, has become 
so changed that it neither supports a lawyer, a doctor, a post ofifice, nor 
even a store or blacksmith's shop at the present time. Such a local 
contrast in the energies of a township could not be better understood 
than by republishing an historical account of what took place there, 
by her active inhabitants, in the Revolutionary War times. History 
says: "On Saturday, Sept. 3, during the earlier struggle in the 
Revolutionary War, at 4 o'clock P. M., an express arrived at Nor- 
wich from Col. Israel Putnam, whose home was not many miles from 
that locality, that Boston had been attacked the night before and 
six of the citizens killed. This was but a rumor, but it caused the 
greatest consternation. The citizens of Norwich assembled about 
their Liberty Tree, then adjourned to the Court House and resolved 
to despatch an express to Providence to learn the truth of the report. 
David Nevins volunteered on this service, as he had on many similar 
occasions, and departed at 8 o'clock P. M. On Sunday morning 
464 men, well equipped and the greater part mounted on good 
horses, had already started for Boston, under command of Major 
John Durkee, and rendezvoused at Capt. Burnham's Inn, seven miles 
from Norwich Court House, where they, at 11 o'clock A. M., were 
met by the return of Mr. Nevins with information that the report 
was not true, whereupon they dispersed. 

CALEB BISHOP (6). 

gCALEB Bishop, second son of g Reuben, and his wife, Ziporah 
Tracy's children were : 

,Lucy, born July i, 1792; married a Babcock; had no chil- 
dren. Resided at Whitesboro, near Utica, N. Y. One of her kindred 
writing of them says, " Of their superior worth I need not speak." 

, Amelia, born Feb. 22, 1795; ^'^^ 1806. 

, Elijah, born Jan. 4, 1797; married, May, 1828, Anna Hoye. 

,Elias, born July 22, 1803; married, Nov. 6, 1828, Lydia Hyde. 

,Mary, born Sept. 2, 1807; married , Thomas Bishop, son of 
gCyrus. They had a son ^Cyrus, who left two daughters, living in 
Kansas now. 

,Earl, born ; died young, May 10, 1823. 

, Emily, born ; died young, Jan. 15, 1830. 



Dr. ELIJAH BISHOP (7). 

,Dr. Elijah Bishop fitted for college partly at the Plalnfield 
Academy and in part under the instruction of the late Rev. Levi 
Nelson, who was for more than fifty years pastor of the Congrega- 
tional Church at Newent Parish, in the town of Lisbon. The many 
kindnesses extended to him by this venerable pastor and his ex- 
cellent wife, who was a daughter of the late David Hale, he often 
spoke of in his life with great gratitude and respect. 

Soon after he graduated at Yale College he was employed to take 
charge of the Mathematical Department in Washington College at 
Chestertown, Md., and remained in that institute two years. But ill 
health, in consequence of too close confinement, compelled him to 
relinquish the position. He returned to New Haven and began the 
study of medicine in the medical school there, and on completing 
the regular course of study, he received the degree of M.D. He 
commenced the practice of medicine in the village of Freedom, 
Baltimore County, but finally settled in Smithsburgh, Washington 
County, Md. (near Hagerstown), where he practiced his profession 
through his life. 

In May, 1828, he was married to Anna, daughter of the late Will- 
iam Waller Hoye, of Alleghany County. They had eight children, 
one dying young. The two oldest sons were educated at Marshall 
College, Pa. The youngest, John, was a member of Yale College 
Class of 1863. 

The home of Dr. Bishop's family was pleasantly surrounded by 
comforts, with a general hospitable welcome to all who visited them 
therein. 

The children and grandchildren of Dr. , Elijah Bishop and 
Anna Hove were as follows : 

gNancy Hoye, born April 28, 1830; died Jan. 23, 1841. 

BENJAMIN CALEB BISHOP (8\ 

gBENjAMiN Caleb, born Oct. i, 1831; married, April 14, 1857, 
Maria Drane. She died Jan. 21, 1884; he died 1896. Their children: 
gEarl, born 1858; died 1858. 

gAnna Eliza, born Feb. 27, i860; died Oct. 27, 1875. 
g Henrietta Maria, born June 4, 1861; died April 18, 1879. 
9 Lucy, born March 28, 1863. 
g Emily, born Jan. 14, 1864. 

9 Eleanor, born March 10, 1866; died 21, 1890. 

gSusan, born Oct. 6, 1868. 

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ELIJAH TRACY BISHOP (8). 

Dr. qElijah Tracy, born April n, 1833, married Mary Louisa 
Coakley, June 18, 1862. Succeeded his father in practice at 
Smithsburg, Md., his present residence. Children: 

gMarcia, born Aug. 2, 1863, 

gSarah Coakley, born April 9, 1865. 

gMary, born Nov. 18, 1866. 

gLucy Irene, born July 18, 1868; married Jaudon Browne, Jan. 
30, 1895. 

9 Henrietta, born Oct. 30, 187 1 ; married Hugh Montgomery, Oct. 
1897. A daughter born and died, 1899 ; a son, j (,Hugh, born July 25, 
1900. Residence in Mississippi. 

jEarl, born and died, 1872. 

gEmily, born Oct. 11, 1874; died June 26, 1900. 



HENRIETTA MARIA BISHOP (8). 

g Henrietta Maria Bishop, born May 27, 1835 ; married Jacob 
T. Towson, born Nov. 27, 183 1, on Jan. 6, 1857. They had ten 
children : 

9 Anna Hoye, born Nov. 7, 1857. 

gWm. Percy, born Sept." 9, 1859. 

9 Lucy Bishop, born Sept. 20, i86r. 

9 Isabella Hughs, born April 5, 1865. 

9 Arthur Lee, born Nov. 6, 1866. 

„ Elizabeth, born May 8, 1869. 

9 Mabel, born Feb. 2, 1871. 

gEthelred, born March 31, 1873. 

gEmily Worden, born Jan. 29, 1875. 

9 Robert Tower, born Aug. 14, 1877. 

Of the above children, Anna Hoye married Davis L. Kenley, Oct. 
20, 1882. Had two children : j^George Tyson, born March 14, 1890, 
and ,Q Robert Gordon, born May 24, 1895. 

9 Lucy Bishop Towson married James A. Brady, March 31, 1891. 
Children: ^^Eleanor, born Jan. 31, r896, and ^^Richard Towson, 
born Aug. 12, 1897. Residence, Baltimore 

gisabella Hughs married Anderson Price, June 20, 1888. Chil- 
dren : jgTownsend born June 14, 1889 ;,q Charles Stuart, born April 
29, 1892 ; ^ gAntonette, born Oct. 30, 1897, Residence, Rutherford, 
New Jersey. 

g William Earl, born June 23, 1837 ; died Aug. 20, 1855. 
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gEmil}^ born Sept. 28, 1838; married Rev. Mr. Clayton, Dec. 13, 
1883. She died Sept. 18, 1897 ; Rev. Mr. Clayton had died pre- 
viously. 

JOHN HOYE BISHOP (8). 

gJOHN HoYE, born Jan. 5, 1842 ; married Alice Besore. They 
have seven children, gjohn Hoye is a graduate of Yale College, and 
now engaged in engineering for a railroad in the Sandwich Islands 
at Honolulu. 

Children : ^Pauline, born May 18, 1873 ; ^Miriam, born Sept. 
1874; gVaughn, born Sept., 1875; ^Gertrude, born 1877; 5,An- 
netta, born 1878; gEmily, born 1880; residence, Smithsburg, Md. ; 
jRuberta, born 1889 ; residence, Smithsburg, Md. 



ELIAS BISHOP (7). 

,Elias, born July 23, 1803, married Nov. 6, 1828, Lydia Hyde ; 
he died April 18, 1870. Elias Bishop was a deacon of the Newent 
church for many years, and well beloved by all who knew him- 
Their children, two, died in infancy ; and two lived to have families. 



LEE HYDE BISHOP (8). 



gLEE Hyde, born May 16, 1835, married Emma J. Bennett ; their 
children were three : 

jCharles Lee, born March 14, 1858 ; married ; lives at Santa 
Fe, New Mexico. 

gHenry Adams, born Jan. 15, 1861. 

g Frank, born March 8, 1864 ; married ; residence, Pawtucket, R. I. 



CALEB TRACY BISHOP (8). 

gCALEB Tracy, born July 16, 1837 ; married Mary E.Tyler March 
17, 1864. They have children : 

jNellie C, born Feb. 15, 1870, married May 21, 1898, Charles W. 
Philips. 

gFannie L., born Jan. 30. 1878. 

gVVm. T., born June 15, 1880. 

gCaleb Tracy served in the Civil War ; was made a warrant offi- 
cer in his Company F of the 26th Regiment of Connecticut Volun- 
teers ; and is not pestering the government about a pension. His 
residence is Plainfield, Conn. 

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CYRUS BISHOP (6). 

gCvRuS son of ^Reuben, born Jan. 22, 1766 ; married gSusannah 
Bishop, born in 1763, in the year of 1792. She was three years older 
than her husband, and represents one generation earlier. Their 
children were four : 

, Susannah, born 1794; died 1828. 

.Hannah, born •; married Solomon Payne March 17, 1818. 

She died Nov. 6, 1822. 

,Ebenezer, born ; died in 1827. 

, Thomas, born ; married Mary Bishop April i, 1828. They 

left a son, Cyrus, now dead ; but left two daughters, who live in 
Kansas, 

EARL BISHOP (6). 

gEARL Bishop, son of gReuben, born Dec. 29, 1768 ; died Oct. 15, 
1808. He married, Mar. 26, 1796, Lucretia H. Miller, born 1773; 
she died 1813. Their children : 

, Stephen Miller, born Jan. 11, 1797 ; died Feb. 19, 1797. 

,Earl Bishop, born Jan. 14, 1799 or 1800 ; died May, 1836. 

, Lucretia Bishop, born Nov. 30, 1804; died Dec. 15, 1881. 

,Fred'k VV. Bishop, born Sept. 5, 1806 ; died Feb. 5, 1S09. 

,Earl Bishop, Jr., born 1800. Married Emily WoodworLh, at 
Sunderland, Mass. She died 1820. He then married second time 
Jane Wilson. (Earl Bishop died in N. Y., May, 1836). She sur- 
vived her husband and married a Brown. ,Earl Bishop, Jr., left one 
child, to wit, gEmily Irene Bishop. 

g Lucretia H. Miller Bishop, married second time Josiah Bard- 
well. They had one child, Eliza, born April 7, 1810; she married 
Joseph Carew in 1833. They lived in South Hadley, Mass., where 
Earl Bishop built and occupied a large mansion. 

3 Emily Irene Bishop, daughter of ,Earl Bishop, Jr., born July 22, 
1822 ; married Rev. Wm. Rogers Chapman, in New York City, May 
16, 1841 ; he died Oct. 25, 1855, in Hanover, Mass. He was a very 
scholarly and brilliant man, lived many years in the European cities, 
and was thoroughly conversant with seven or eight different lan- 
guages. Their children : 

gEmily Jane Brown, born Aug. 31, 1843. 

gAnna Eliza Kypers, born 1845 ; died 1847. 

gMary Josephine Victoria, born Oct. 26, 1850. 

gWm. Rogers, born Aug. 4, 1855. 

gEiviELiNE Irene Bishop Chapman, married second time Wm. J. 
Valentine, of New York City, Oct. i, 1868. She died Jan. 8, 1890, at 
Bethel, Maine. 

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jEmily J. B., born 1843 ; married Louis T. Valentine, May 19, 
1863. 

9MARY J. Victoria, born 1850; married Rev. Jacob Horton, Oct. 
12, 1875. 

gWiLLiAM R., born 1855 ; married ^Emma L. Faulkner July 18, 
1877. 

J, Emily J. B, and Louis T. Valentine's children : 

j^Mary Emily, born April 25, 1864. 

jpEliza Carew, born July 21, 186S ; died Jan. 23, 1870. 

jyAdeltha Eugenia, born April 12, 1870. 

jgCharles Augustus, born Oct. i, 1871. 

jgOeorge Horton, born Feb. 12, 1878. 

j^Earl Bishop, born June 26, 1880. 

gMARY J. V. and Rev. Jacob Horton's children : 
J g Martha Washington, born July 4, 1876. 
,Q William Rogers, born Dec. 24, 1879. 
jpMary Louise, born May 16, 1887. 

jWiLLiAM Rogers Chapman married ^Emma Louisa Faulkner, 
and have a daughter : j^Cornelia Bishop, born Jan. 18, 1880 ; is at 
school at Providence, 1901 ; residence of parents, New York City, 
1901. 



The daughter of 

EARL BISHOP (6) AND LUCRETLA MILLER. 

,Lucretia Bishop, born Nov, 30, 1804 ; married June 23, 1823, 
to Rev. Stephen Sanford Smith, born in Haverhill, N. H., April 14, 
1797. Lucretia Bishop was daughter of Earl and Lucretia Miller 
Bishop, and born in Enfield, Conn., as above stated. Rev. S. S. 
Smith died Oct, 28, 187 1 ; she died Dec. 15, 1881. Their children : 

g Emily Bishop, born in Poultney, Vt., Nov. 6, 1824 ; died Aug. 
3, 1825. 

gMaria Louisa, born in Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 29, 1826 ; died Oct. 
29, 1865. 

gDavid Sanford, born in Litchfield, Conn., July 28, 1828 ; died 
Aug. 1 1, 1849. 

gHenry Martyn, born in New Bedford, Mass., May 5, 1830; died 
June 18, 1S95. Married a Miss Hudson first, then a Miss Sanford. 

gCornelia Evarts, born in Quincy, Mass., July 15, 1833 ; married 
Samuel Faulkner. They reside in Chicago. 

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gElizabeth Henry, born in Manlius, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1835 ; died 
Nov, 13, 1835. 

gGeorge Bishop, born in Roxbury, Mass., July 29, 1837 ; died 
May 2, 1900, unmarried. 

3 Harriet Eliza, born in Newton, Mass., Dec. 7, 1840 ; died Feb. 
28, 1866. Married a Mr. Roberts ; no children. 

gFrederick Worthington, born in Westminster, Mass., June 2, 
1845; died Sept. 22, 1899. 

Samuel Faulkner, born in Colchester County, Nova Scotia, 
Oct. 19, 1828 ; married gCornelia E. Smith, Jan. 8, 1857. Their 
children were : 

gEmma Louisa, born in Chicago, 111., Jan. 28, 1858 ; married Wm. 
Rogers, born Aug. 4, 1855. One child, Cornelia B. 

gSanford Worthington, born in Warren, Mass., Aug.'S, 1859 ; died 
Feb. 25, 1888. 

gLucretia Bishop, born in Chicago, 111., April 3, 1861 ; married 
Frank Loney Perry, son of late Judge Perry, of Maryland. 

gSarah Fletcher, born in Chicago, 111., Nov. 15, 1862. 

gCornelia Eliza, born in Chicago, 111., July 24, 1864; died April 
18, 1876. 

gElizabeth, born in Chicago. 111., Dec. 21, 1865. 

9 Harriet Eliza, born in Chicago, 111., Nov. 6, 1867 ; married Frank 
Bissell. Have sons: jgGeorge F., j^Sanford Faulkner, and ^^Wood- 
bridge. 

gjosephine Carew, born in Chicago, 111., Jan. 24, 1869 ; died Jan. 
26, 1869. 

gSusanna Roberts, born in Chicago, 111., May 19, 187 1. 

jGeorgene, born in Chicago, 111., Oct. 6, 1873. 

jAnne Shaw, born in Chicago, 111., Sept. 26, 1877. 

The Faulkners reside at Chicago, 111. 

DANIEL WETMORE BISHOP (6). 

gDANiEL Wetmore, son of g Reuben Bishop, born Nov. 24, 1770 ; 
died in 1813. He was youngest son of Captain Reuben Bishop of 
the fifth generation, and married Lucy Reade, of Lisbon, Jan. 26, 
1796, a sister of the late Silas Reade. They settled in Warren, Her- 
kimer County, N. Y. After the death of Daniel Bishop, Lucy Reade 
Bishop married, second, Stephen Stewart. No children were born 
to them. She died June, 1858, aged 82 years. Children of Daniel 
W. Bishop and wife Lucy of the seventh generation here follow in 
course. 

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OLIVE BISHOP (7). 

, Olive, born ; married Levi Perry; children of , Olive 

Bishop Perry and Levi, four, gLucretia, gOrpha, gLevi, and gLucy. 
Not able to learn more about them. 



MARY ANN BISHOP (7). 

,Mary Ann, born ; married Austin Graves ; their children, 

four; gBishop, gCalvin, gGeorge and gMary Jane ; Mrs. Graves 
married a second husband, Amos Wilson, one child born to them 
named gAmos Wilson, Jr. Not able to learn more about them. 



EDWARD BISHOP (7). 

, Edward, born . Left home unmarried and went to South 

America and was heard from but once, while he was ill, and he is sup- 
posed to have died there. 



DWIGHT BISHOP (7j. 

,DwiGHT, born Dec. 12, 1803, at Springfield, Mass. ; married 
Mary Siehl. Their children were : g Emily, born Dec. 25, 1829 ; mar- 
riedC. E. Norton, and left a son, ^Harold Percival Norton, born 
Nov. 4, 1855 ; now in the service of the United States Navy at 
Manila, a lieutenant, 1901 ; gSarah Jennette, born Oct. 17, 1836 ; 
married P. R. Scott ; he died leaving no children. Mrs. Scott 
resides in Bridgeport, Conn, 

gEdward Dwight, born June 30, 1834; died, unmarried, at about 
fifty years old. 

g Maria Borden Bishop, born Dec. 23, 1840; unmarried. Re- 
sides at Bridgeport, Conn. 

gWilliam Benedict and gEdwin Brown Twing; died in infancy. 

, Dwight, married second wife, Barbara Ann La Monte. Their 
children, gCharles and gLouise, died infants. 

gClara, born ; married Frank C. Piatt. They live at Arling- 
ton, N. J. 

Mrs. Clara Piatt and husband have young children, ages and 
names unknown. 

Mrs. Bishop, Dwight's second wife, died Dec. 31, 1900, aged 83 
years. 

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EMELINE BISHOP (7)» 

,Emeline, born 1806, at Springfield, Mass.; married, first, Rev. 
Benjamin Wilson Higbee in 1836. Their children: 

gjames McGibeney Higbee died, has left a son, 

9 Arthur Higbee, who lives in Iowa. 

gHelen Maria Higbee; residence, Brooklyn, N, Y. 

Mrs. , Higbee married (second husband) Rev. Israel Mattison. 
Their children: 

gDell Bishop Mattison married Edgar C. Smith, and had children. 

gStillwell Burrows Smith; residence Camden, N. J. 

9 Helen Reade Smith, married Somers Corson. The Corsons' 
residence, Seaville, N. J. 

gElihu Burritt Mattison married Annie Corson. They have one 
child, jNellie Dell Mattison, Edward and Maud dying young. Their 
residence, Philadelphia, Pa. 

,Emeline, the mother, died in 1892, 86 years old, at Seaville, N. J. 



CHARLES BISHOP (7). 

, Charles, born July 18, 1809 ; married, Feb. 10, 1834, Catharine 
Hoyer, born in 1816. She died Jan. 7, 1891. Their children : 

fiWilliam Henry Bishop, a soldier, born Nov. 8, 1842 ; killed on 
Sept. 20, 1864, in Civil War. 



JAMES DWIGHT BISHOP (8). 

g James Dwight Bishop was a soldier in the 66th Ohio Regiment; 
four years ; to the close of the war. Now (1901) resides in Indian- 
apolis, Ind. 

gjames Dwight, born Sept. 19, 1845 ; married first, Vona M. Pot- 
ter Dec. 23, 1869 ; second, Mrs. Shaffer June 2, 1897. 

Has a son by first wife, gEllsworth Bishop, born in 1870; he 
married Mary Ann East, 

Has a son by second wife, gjames Dwight, Jr., born March 2, 
1899. 

gFrances Mary, born in 1836 ; died in 1838. 
gMaud Malissa, born in 1839 ; died in 1842. 

3 Alice, born Sept, 2, 185 1 ; married S, W. Devore, They have a 
daughter, 

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ALMIRA BISHOP (7). 

,A.LMiRA, born May 24, 1812, in Warren, Herkimer County, N, Y., 
married Artemus Ward. Their children : 

g Jennie M. Ward, married Palmer M. Wood, who died Dec. 18, 
1900. A son born to them, gRinaldo R. Wood, married Maud Long- 
shore, and had a child born, j^Marjorie. 

giva H. Wood married Chas. T. Gloo, and had a child, j^Palmer 
Wood Gloo. 

9 Mabel J. Wood and Zmnia P. Wood, both unmarried (190 1), live 
in Lakewood, N. J. 

9 Rose F. Wood, the same address. 

9 Ward Palmer Wood, unmarried (1901), resides at Herkimer, N. Y. 

gRinaldo R. Wood was a lieutenant in the Volunteer Army in the 
Spanish-American War. 

gHelen R. Ward, born Nov. 11, 1845 ; single; living in Herkimer 
County (1901). 

gCharles A. Ward, born Dec 6, 1850 ; died April 15, 1895 ; un- 
married. 



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Part II. 

JOHN BISHOP (3). 

3J0HN Bishop and descendants : 

gjohn, born Sept. 30, 1685 ; died Nov. 14, 1755. Was a brother 
of gSamuel, one of the earlier settlers of Norwich, now- Lis- 
bon, Conn., since 1786, when Lisbon was chartered as a separate 
town. They were the oldest and youngest sons of gSamuel, of Ips- 
wich, Mass., who was a son of ^Thomas Bishop, one of the founders 
of Massachusetts Bay settlement, who lived and died in Ipswich. 

3 John married Mary Bingham, of Windham, July 20, 17 18. Mary 
Bingham was born Feb. 26, 1797; died Oct. 17, 1724. sJohn and 
Mary had three children : \va'\ "v 

^Mary, born June 25, 1719 ; married an Allen. 

^Deborah, born May 22, 1722, married a Cushman. 

^John, born Aug. 4, 1/24; died 1724. 

gjohn Bishop married, second, Temperance Lathrop, who sur- 
vived him and married, second', Capt. Grant, December 14, 1763, 
and married, third, a Mr. Hewitt, Sept. 16, 1773. The children of 
3John and Temperance were : 

^John, born Oct. 13, 1731 ; married Ruth Parker, born 1735. He 
died 1814. 

^Temperance, Jr., baptized Oct. 21, 1733; married Capt. Dr. 
David Holmes, Nov. 12, 1761, the father of Rev. Abiel Holmes, 
D.D., LL.D., who was the father of the poet Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, M.D., LL.D. Capt. Dr. David Holmes was usually ad- 
dressed with this double title in consequence of his having been a 
military officer before he received his degree for the practice of 
medicine. He had been married first to Mehitable Mayo, by whom 
he had eight children. He had eight more by this second marriage 
to Temperance Bishop. 

^Temperance Bishop and Capt. Dr. David Holmes' children will 
nofhe followed out in this paper, supposing their genealogical line 
is already on record and in print ; but will here state it was their 
second son, born Abiel Holmes, the clergyman, who was the father 
of the poet Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

^Joseph, son of gJohn, baptized Aug. 31, 1735, was the third 
child of sJohn and Temperance Lathrop. Not able to give his 
history. 

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^Benjamin, born June ir, 1738. Not able to give his history. 
^Samuel, born Nov. 21, 1745 ; married Mercy Johnson. (?) 
^Esther, born Aug. 25, 1740. 

^Zeriah, born May 22, 1742. Both mentioned in jjohn Bishop's 
will, who died in 1755. 

JOHN BISHOP (4). 

4J0HN Bishop, son of gjohn, married Ruth Parker, daughter of 
the Rev. Jonathan Parker of that part of Plymouth (now Plympton), 
Mass. Probably married about 1755 or 1756. Their children, 5 John 
and gRuth L., were baptized July 15, 1759. 

gjohn married Lucretia Derby April 3, 1777. 

[A John Bishop graduated at Harvard College in 1776, and died in 1833. ^ 
conjecture this may be the same who married Lucretia Derby in 1777.] 

No further record available. 

jRuth Lord married Wm. Sheldon Oct. 26, 1779. 
gMary, baptized Feb. 25, 1760; married, Dec. 2, 1779, Elijah 
Converse, of Killingly, Conn. 

jBenjamin, son of 4John, baptized July 18, 1762. Do not know 
whom he married, but a Benjamin had sons, gWm. Tracy and ^Asa 
Bishop, baptized Jan. 5, 1800. 

JONATHAN PARKER BISHOP (5). 

4J0HN Bishop's son, gjonathan Parker, was a physician; baptized 
April 24, 1765. He married Hannah Torrey, of Killingly, Ct. They 
had children. He died in North Carolina. 

5 Warren never married; died in Canada. 

g Susan married David Torrey and had a son, who died unmar- 
ried. 

gjonathan P., Jr. 
Joseph. 

JONATHAN PARKER BISHOP (6). 

gJoNATHAN Parker Bishop, Jr., born April 10, 1792, at Killingly, 
Conn.; married Eliza Harding, of Medfield, in 1817. About the 
year 1818 this gjonathan Parker, son of gjonathan Parker Bishop, 
commenced the practice of law. He represented the town of Med- 
field in the Legislature in the years 1848 and 1851. At the session 
of 1851 the question was the election of two United States Senators 

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— one as the successor to Daniel Webster. This was the beginning 
of the Free Soil party, which afterward became the Republican 
party. Mr. Bishop was the candidate of a coalition contest in his 
town and elected, and it was a life-long gratification to him to speak 
of his claim that his vote decided the contest which by one vote 
elected Charles Sumner and Robert Rantoul, Jr., to the vacancies, 
as Sumner had but one majority after twenty-six ballotings, in which 
Mr. Bishop answered every roll-call and voted. He died July lo, 
1865. His wife died Nov. 16, 1877. Their children: 

, Moses B. H., born 1817; married Abigail Torrey first, Eliza 
Lavers second. 

, Caroline E. Bishop, born 1820 ; married, first, Silas W. Wilder, 
second, Charles Jennings. 

,Mary D. Bishop, born 1822 ; married John Battelle. 

, Robert R. Bishop, born 1834; married Mary H. Bullard. 

The children of the above : 

MOSES B. H. BISHOP (7). 

, Moses B. H. and wife Eliza had a son, Elrsha Parker, who 
married Abby A. Hartshorn. This son has died. 

CAROLINE E. BISHOP (7). 

, Caroline E. and Silas W. Wilder have three children : gSarah 
W. Wilder, gMary B., and gSilas W. Wilder, Jr. 

MARY D. BISHOP (7.) 

,Marv D. Bishop and John Battelle have three children living in 
1901; two died in infancy: gAnnie M., gjohn E. and gOeorge. 

ROBERT R, BISHOP (7). 

, Robert R. Bishop and wife Mary have three children : gRobert 
R., gElias B., and g Joseph T. 

Judge , Robert R. Bishop, who has been on the Superior Court 
bench in the state of Massachusetts for many years, is held in high 
esteem and honored, not only by all who know him personally, but 
for the superior qualifications and fitness he has shown in discharge of 
his official duties, and for his decisions, which in the main will stand 
irreversibly the test of time. He was once nominated for Governor, 
but, unfortunately for the state, he was not elected, because many poli- 
ticians wanted to see what Gen. Benj. Butler would do, and they 
saw that he was better fitted to govern rebels in New Orleans than 
to preside over the good old Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 

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JOSEPH BISHOP (5). 

5 Joseph, son of ^John and Ruth Parker, born Dec. 19, 1772, at 
Lisbon, Conn., and died Jan. 7, 1826, at Stevenson, N. Y. He 
married Mary Palmer, daughter of Jedadiah Palmer, of Preston, 
Conn. ; she was born Oct. 27, 1784, and died Oct. 11, 1855, at Bed- 
ford, Ohio. Name at death, Mary Bishop-Parks, having married late 
in life Nathan Parks ; she was married first to Joseph Bishop, April 
26, 1804. Children : 

gMARY Ann, born Mar. 2, 1806, at Lisbon, Conn. ; married John- 
son Glasier Sept. 8, 1825, at Manchester, Vt. ; she died Feb. 11, 
1861, at Bedford, Ohio. Descendants live in Ohio and Wisconsin. 
Glasier was born May 26, 1800 ; died Jan. 27, 1869. 

gjoseph P., born June 2, 1808, at Lisbon, Conn, ; died at Pine 
Ridge, Miss., Sept., 1834; single. 

gSANFORD Holmes, born June 22, 1810 ; married Melissa Cannon 
May 18, 1835 ! ^e was a teacher and merchant ; died Dec. 24, 1885, 
at Solon, Ohio. His wife died Feb. r, 1890. Descendants in Ohio 
and Milwaukee. 

gSally M., born June 8, 1814; married Jan. i, 1832, Wm. 
Schermerhorn, of Troy, N. Y. ; she died at Hebron, N. Y., June 16, 
1834 ; no issue. 

gCharles P., born Oct. 9, 1816 ; died, 1845, near Langville, St. 
Francis Co., Ark. ; single. 

gLydia A., born Oct. 9, 18 18, at Manchester, Vt. ; married to 
Manly Smith Jan. i, 1833 ; she died Mar. 24, 1841 ; no issue. 

gJosEPHiNE, B., born Nov. 29, 1820, at Manchester, Vt. ; married 
Eliezer Carver Jan. i, 1838, at Twinsburg, Ohio ; she is dead. De- 
scendants at Marshall, Mich. Children : ^Cyrus, ^John, and ,Mary, 
now Mrs. Bangham, 

gHiRAM Nelson Bishop, born May 29, 1823, at Manchester, Vt., 
married Sept., 1853, Catharine A. Stout, of Columbus, Ohio. He 
died at Paris, France, Sept., 1868. Children at Chicago — one an Epis- 
copal clergyman : , William, , Charles, , Laura, and , Katharine. 



MARY ANN BISHOP (6). 

gMARY Ann Bishop's children, who married a Glasier, were : 
, Susan B., born May 29, 1826, who married Orris King, Nov. 17,*,* 
1847, and had children. 

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gElla, who married Henry Breeds, and have two gdaughters. Resi- 
dence at Seattle, Washington. 

gjohnson King married Estella Humenston, and have three chil- 
dren at Boston, Mass. 

3 Mary Emma Glasier married James Jones, and have a daughter, 
gjessie. Residence at Bedford, Ohio. 



, Henry Warren Glasier (gMary Ann Bishop's son), born May 28; 
1828 ; married Jane E, Bosworth, April 27, 1852. He is now living 
at Wauwatosa, Wis. 

His children : Dr. gHenry Willis — no children ; gFannie Estell 
has a daughter, , Helen, 

gCharles J. has a daughter, gMabel. 

gCora S., born Aug. 13, i860; married P. M. Myers. 

gEdwin S. Glasier has two children : ^Elsie and gLee, 

gjohnson J.'s children : gida, gMabel, gFrederic. 

gArthur B., born May 12, 1S67 ; married Ida Fairbanks ; no issue. 

gGibson Gardner (a lawyer), born 1873 ; married Mary Belle 
Kellog ; no issue. 

gEdith L., born March 9, 1876 ; unmarried. 

Most of the above children are engaged in professional life. 



, Madison J. Glasier, born April 30, 1835; had two children: gl^da, 
deceased, and gNina. Residence, Cleveland, Ohio. 

, Harrison Glasier, born Nov., 1836 ; married Eliza Clapp. He 
was a Disciple Minister ; died Sept. 28, 1868. They had twins born, 
a boy and girl: the boy died; the girl, gjessie Glasier, is an authoress 
at Cleveland, Ohio. 



SANFORD HOLMES BISHOP (6). 

gSanford Holmes Bishop, son of ^Joseph, born June 22, 1810, at 
Lisbon, Conn., teacher and merchant ; married Fannie Melissa Can- 
non, May 18, 1835. He died Dec. 24, 1885 ; she died Feb. i, 1890. 
Their children reside in Ohio and Milwaukee. 



AMERICUS VESPUCIUS BISHOP (7). 

,Americus Vespucius Bishop, residence Milwaukee, born May 10, 
1837 ; married Persis E. Stiles, June 18, i860 ; no children. 

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MARTHA MELISSA BISHOP (7). 
, Martha Melissa Bishop, born Jan. 3, 1843 ; married Aug. 21, 1862, 
Anson B. Chamberlain. Residence, Milwaukee, Their children 
(three) : gArthur Bishop, gAlbert Victor, gjames Avery. 

8 Arthur Bishop Chamberlain, born March 12, 1866; married Jan. 
18, 1888, Georgie Wood. Their children : gjessie M. Chamberlain, 
born 1889 ; gHelen Bishop Chamberlain, born 1892 ; gOladys Cham- 
berlain, born 1899. 

• 

gAlbert Victor Chamberlain, born July 15, 187 1 ; married Dec. 
24, i8q7, Daisie MoUer. Their children (two) : gGaylord B. Cham- 
berlain, born 1898 ; jFredric Bishop Chamberlain, born 1900. 

FRANCIS CANNON BISHOP (7). 
, Francis Cannon Bishop, born March 24, 1847 ; married Isabel! 
Eddy, Jan. 3, 1873. Residence, Chicago. Their children : gFrancis 
R. Bishop, born July 11, 1873 ; gGertrude Bishop, born July 11, 
1876; gMarion Bishop, born Jan. 19, 1878 ; gHiram Bishop, born Feb. 
8, 1880 ; James Bishop, born Aug. 29, 1882 ; died 1884. 

WALTER PALMER BISHOP (7), 

, Walter Palmer Bishop, son of gSanford Holmes Bishop, born 
Aug. 9, 185 1 ; married Oct. 20, 1875, Mary E. Graham. They re- 
side in Milwaukee, Wis. Their children are four : 

gSidney H., born Oct. 17, 1878. 

gWarren J., born Nov. 29, 1879. 

g Adelaide, born May 10, 1882. 

gMartha B., born Dec. 17, 1875. 

FREDERICK ARTHUR BISHOP (7). 
, Frederick Arthur Bishop, son of gSanford Holmes, born Jan. 11, 
1856, married, Nov. 26, 1881, Anna M. Dickens. They reside at 
Solon, Ohio. 

WILFRED WALLACE BISHOP (7). 

, Wilfred Wallace Bishop, son of gSanford Holmes, born March 
13, 1861, married, Sept. 27, 1882, Carrie McFarland. They reside in 
Solon, Ohio. Their children were four : 

gRobert Austin Bishop, born March i, 1884. 

gDwight Henry Bishop, born May 27, 1S88. 

g Fannie Isabel Bishop, born Feb. 14, 1891. 

gWinnifred Isabel Bishop, born Oct. 28, 1895. 

By death our fathers entered to their rest, 
And so must we, before we're truly blest. 

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Part III. 

A chapter suggesting further search by any persons who may be 
able to shed light upon facts connected with either Samuel or John 
Bishop's descendants. 

The Samuel Bishops were numerous and not always easy to keep 
clearly in the line of ancestors and descendants. History gives us 
a Daniel L. Bishop, son of Samuel and Mercy Johnson Bishop, 
born 1777 ; married, 1805, Lucy Perkins, born 1780, daughter of 
Simon Perkins, of Liverpool, Nova Scotia. She died in 1817 in New 
York. Their children were : 

Simon Perkins Bishop, residing in Cincinnati, very aged, in 1901 ; 
Elizabeth Bishop, a daughter, married 1831. 

Dr. Daniel Edward Bishop died in England, Dec. 30, 1899, 

The above Daniel L. Bishop married, second time, in 1824, ^Eliza- 
beth Perkins, who was born 1783 (the sister of his first wife). She died 
in 1856 at Ithaca, N. Y., where, also, her husband had removed, and 
where he died. I have not been able to give positively his father 
Samuel's parentage, but have little doubt he was sJohn Bishop's son. 
Of Daniel L. Bishop's children by his wife Lucy, Elizabeth married, 
1831, J. Newton Perkins, a prominent and well-known business man 
in Norwich, New York and Boston as a railroad manager. He died 
May 13, 1876. They have two children living: Rev. J. Newton 
Perkins, born 1840 ; married Emily Soules. He is an Episcopalian 
clergyman in New York City. A daughter, Elizabeth (1901), resides 
in Plymouth, Mass. One daughter is deceased, a Mrs. Lucy Perkins 
Benedict. 

Simon Perkins, Jr., of Liverpool, born 177 1 ; married, in 1804, 
Nancy Ann Bishop, born Jan. 24, 1780, daughter of 5 Ezra Bishop, 
son of ^Samuel. Thus the brother descendants intermarried. 

gEzra Bishop, born 1745 ; married Anne Lathrop, 1770, and had 
a son, jHenry, born 1777, and a daughter, Anne, born Jan. 24, 
1780. (?) The wife, Anne L., died Feb. 23, 1780. 

5 Ezra's daughter Nancy, married Simon Perkins, Jr., of Liver- 
pool, Nova Scotia ; and her brothers and sisters, as accredited to 
gEzra as father, show that Ezra must have married a second time, 
whom I know not. 

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The children supposed to be Ezra's by a second wife: 

Nancy, born Jan. 24, 1780. 

Harry, born Sept. 6, 1786. 

Sally Lord, born Sept. 15, 1790 ; died 1817. 

Maria, born Dec. 20, 1791. 

Abigail Corning, born Nov. 24, 1793. 

Samuel, born Sept. 21, 1798. 

Ezra (doubtful). 

To find a Samuel Bishop of proper age for the father of Daniel 
L. Bishop we can only conjecture that gjohn Bishop's son Samuel 
must be the one indicated; and if thus right he married Mercy John- 
son, as already found in print. Then again we find a record of the 
death of Daniel L. Bishop, son of a Samuel, in 1794, which I feel sure 
creates a doubt as to one or the other of these records that have got 
into type. One Daniel Bishop died 1783, and his widow married 
again. As a Daniel L. died in 1794, it might be he, and not a 
Samuel, who was father of the Daniel Lathrop Bishop who mar- 
ried the Perkins girls of Nova Scotia. There were two sons of 
jjohn Bishop and Temperance Lathrop, which might explain and 
connect the history of some of these Bishops if found, to wit: 



Benjamin, born Tune 16, iTiS. ) », ^ 
^ \ ' . •' ' '^ > No furth 

Joseph, born Aug. 31, 1735. > 



er record of them found. 



sjohn's son Samuel, born Nov, 21, 1745 (whose son Daniel L. 
Bishop as mentioned above), could be right. 

A Hannah Bishop married Daniel Lathrop, Feb. 14, 1797. To 
what family did she belong? 

Capt. 4 Samuel Bishop, who married Abigail Corning, as has been 
recited and authenticated, had a daughter whose history can be 
further followed than has been related. Their daughter, gAbigail 
married Joshua Perkins, and their daughter gTabitha married Ben- 
jamin Burnham, and gTabitha's sister gAbigail Perkins married 
Barnabas Huntington, and their daughter ,Lucy married ,Barzillai 
Bishop. Their son gNathan Perkins Bishop who married Nancy Lee 
celebrated their golden wedding a few years ago. The writer who 
was present at the wedding of his cousin Nathan P. to Nancy Lee, 
and, fifty years later, was also present at their golden wedding, re- 
members, among other things mentioned on that occasion, an 
enquiry about a piece of china formerly owned and used by A. B. 
Perkins, by her obtained from England, having on it a " coat of 
arms." The Perkins' families must have had all claims to it, and 
it was consequently given to Barzillai Perkins Bishop, a member of 
the firm of Harwood, Bishop and Bidwell, of Norwich, Conn. 



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THE ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
OF THE NEWENT CHURCH. 

The celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of 
the Lisbon Church (Newent) took place in 1873. The writer was 
present and participated on that pleasant occasion when the letters 
from non-residents and invited guests were read. One most attract- 
ive letter, describing the virtues of his grandmother, Temperance 
Bishop, and his high respect and love for her memory, was received 
from Oliver Wendell Holmes over his own autograph. This letter, 
I am sorry to say, 1 am unable to get and place imperishably before 
the Bishop where it naturally belongs. 




Once more to time's old grave-yard I return 
And scrape the moss from memory's pictured urn. 

—0. IV. Holmes. 



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APPENDIX. 



No doubt, if we had the English records at hand, we should find 
that many more Bishops now in this country were traceable to and 
connected with this Thomas Bishop stock of Ipswich and Massachu- 
setts Bay settlers. 

Many families of Bishops in New England, not supposed to be 
related now, might possibly find ancestors in Thomas Bishop's 
brothers or in his children or grandchildren, as several of them are 
referred to by name only, but without other records. 

There were two brothers of his : Nathaniel and a Henry, in 1671, 
and three sons, Thomas, Jr., Job and Nathaniel, as well as one 
grandson, Thomas, brother of Margaret, Samuel and John, herein 
described ; and no doubt these four children of Samuel and Esther 
Cogswell had other brothers, for the parents were reported to have 
had nine children. 

Samuel's descendants : 



gEbenezer, Jr., born 1767, 
gHezakiah, born 1772, 
g Elijah, born 1742, son of ^Caleb 
John's descendants : 
4joseph, born 1735, 
^Benjamin, born 1738, 
^Zeriah, born 1742, 



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